Chestnuts is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. House. 1 related planning application.

Chestnuts

WRENN ID
long-gutter-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 July 1980
Type
House
Address
Chestnuts, Whelp Street, Preston St. Mary, CO10 9NL
OS grid reference
TL 946 496
Coordinates
52.1106, 0.84103
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chestnuts is a timber-framed and plastered building, likely dating from the 16th to 17th century. It has a thatched roof and is one storey high with attics. The windows include both casements and double-hung sashes with glazing bars. There is one dormer on the front and a ridge chimney stack.

Local climate

Chestnuts sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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